This study presents the results of an investigation into the impact of CACE courses for adult educators, trainers and development practitioners. The report describes how the courses affected the training practices and ...

This study was prompted by concerns around mathematics teaching and learning in the South
African education system. Contributory factors to this situation are the lack of competent
mathematics teachers in the classroom ...

Carstens, Delphi(South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education (SAARDHE), 2016)

This article seeks to address a fundamental shift that has occurred in reality; a displacement that requires us to critically account for the ways in which knowledge is both being produced and taught at universities. The ...

This study explored foundation phase first year student teachers’ perceptions about mathematics.
The focus on their attitudes towards mathematics in two roles – (1) as learners of mathematics,
based on their prior ...

Teaching and learning, an evolving endeavour, is associated with many factors, with
advancements in technology, playing an ever-growing role in the classroom. It is therefore
important to include the use of interactive ...

Research has revealed that the academic performances of learners in South Africa are below the required level. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) launched the literacy and numeracy strategy 2006–2016 in response ...

What do the philosophies of phenomenological scholars such as Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty tell us about education in South Africa? How can we use the philosophies of these scholars to develop the minds of our ...

This article considers how the decisions of the UK government, following the Brexit referendum, may impact on higher education in Africa. Ghana and South Africa are the two countries chosen to exemplify the claim that ...

This paper focuses on the extent and consequences of learner progression in the form of ‘automatic
promotion’ or grade promotion for reasons other than academic achievement, as propagated by the
existing School Progression ...

This study aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the circumstances under which
adult education, in particular adult basic education, can support and occasionally initiate participatory
development, social ...

The idea of having a Compare Forum focusing on the above title was first discussed with one of the Editors of Compare during a PhD defence in Oslo in 2011. The PhD dissertation itself was linked to a larger project in which ...

Technology education was introduced for the first time after the abolition of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The technology curriculum required that students become technologically literate. However, in order for ...

One way to approach the project of decolonising the university is to employ decolonising pedagogies, which allow the whole of people’s lived experience into teaching and learning spaces, affirm this experience as worthy ...

Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s “lived body” theory, we argue for a shift towards a lived-experience
and body-specific curriculum in South Africa. Such a curriculum would view learning as a lived,
embodied, social and culturally ...

We argue that the “community of inquiry” approach, using reading materials
modelled on Lipman’s Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified
and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking ...

This study reports on an intervention that emanated from a concern a mathematics teacher had about the unsatisfactory performance of grade 12 learners in the school-based mid-year examination. The intervention was based ...

Various efforts are underway to improve achievement in high-stakes examinations in school
mathematics. This article reports on one such initiative which focuses on the development of
quality teaching of school mathematics ...

Teachers’ mathematical content knowledge has been under scrutiny for some time. This development is in the wake of learners’ unsatisfactory performance in national examinations and international achievement tests. A widely ...

In this chapter, the ESL approaches adopted by seven different literacy organisations in South Africa are described and analysed. The approaches are identified in relation to developments in the field of applied linguistics ...

Key policies on teacher development emphasise the necessity of a teaching force that is competent to apply learner-centred practices. Barriers to learning, like poverty, present huge classroom challenges and have implications ...